Carpathica is a genus

Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of air-breathing land snail

Land snail

A land snail is any of the many species of snail that live on land, as opposed to those that live in salt water and fresh water. Land snails are terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells, It is not always an easy matter to say which species are terrestrial, because some are more or less...

s, terrestrial

Terrestrial animal

Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land , as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water , or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats...

 pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Oxychilidae

Oxychilidae

Oxychilidae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Gastrodontoidea.- Distribution :...

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Distribution

Distribution of Carpathica include south-eastern Europe and Turkey.

Description

Animal cannot withdraw into the shell. The shell

Gastropod shell

The gastropod shell is a shell which is part of the body of a gastropod or snail, one kind of mollusc. The gastropod shell is an external skeleton or exoskeleton, which serves not only for muscle attachment, but also for protection from predators and from mechanical damage...

 is with 0.5-2 whorls

Whorl (mollusc)

A whorl is a single, complete 360° revolution or turn in the spiral growth of a mollusc shell. A spiral configuration of the shell is found in of numerous gastropods, but it is also found in shelled cephalopods including Nautilus, Spirula and the large extinct subclass of cephalopods known as the...

. The last whorl is much inflated.

Reproductive system

Reproductive system of gastropods

The reproductive system of gastropods varies greatly from one group to another within this very large and diverse taxonomic class of animals...

: Penis is more or less long, usually cylindrical, with appendix (flagellum) at its terminal end. Vas deferens is inserting laterally (subterminally). Retractor connects at appendix. Vagina is usually shorter, surrounded by a vaginal gland in its posterior part. Spermatheca duct is usually short and usually inserting in the zone covered by the vaginal gland. The spermatheca is spherical or ovoid. Oviduct is usually short and sometimes thinner than penis and vagina. Atrium is short.

Carpathica differs from Daudebardia

Daudebardia

Daudebardia of small air-breathing land snails or semi-slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the family Oxychilidae, the glass snails.-Species:Species within the genus Daudebardia include:** Daudebardia brevipes...

in the presence of an appendix or flagellum at the apical end of the penis; vas deferens inserts subterminally (in Daudebardia terminally).

If Daudebardia transsylvanica is conspecific with Carpathica langi, which is likely if results by Alexandru Vasile Grossu (1983) are tenable (they suggest an uninterrupted gradient between both forms), then there are no differences between Daudebardia and Carpathica, neither in shell not in the anatomy, and the species classified in Carpathica should be placed in Daudebardia.

Species

Species within the genus Carpathica include:

• Carpathica amisena (Forcart, 1950)
• Carpathica bielawskii Riedel, 1963
• Carpathica boettgeri (Clessin, 1883)
• Carpathica calophana
  Carpathica calophana
  Carpathica calophana is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Oxychilidae.- Distribution :The distribution of this species is eastern-carpathian.It occurs in:* Slovakia...
  
  (Westerlund, 1881) - type species
• Carpathica cretica (Forcart, 1950)
• Carpathica denticulata Grossu, 1969
• Carpathica insularis Riedel, 1988
• Carpathica langi (Pfeiffer, 1846)
• Carpathica stussineri (Wagner, 1895)
• Carpathica wirthi Forcart, 1971